Early Years[]
'Dal Jenkins' is an American actor, born William Dal Jenkins in 1935 in Columbus, Georgia. Jenkins is known for films such as Will Penny (1967), The War Lord (1965) and Bad Charleston Charlie (1973). When Charlton Heston lived in Columbus as a boy he lived with Dal's Parents, Dr William Franklin Jenkins, and Mrs May Charlton Baynes Jenkins, sister of Charlton Heston's mother. They were also Charlton's Aunt and Uncle. Dal went on to become an Actor playing in some of his Cousin's movies. Dal was also in the series Batman (in which Jenkins played the henchman Shark in episodes #33 and #34) and other TV shows. He has an IMDB listing as W. Dal Jenkins as a writer with 6 or 7 credits for scripts that were produced for broadcast. As of 8/16/23 he seems to be still alive and living in Columbus, GA. There was a marriage to Susan A. Burrows that ended in divorce.
Film Roles[]
Dal Jenkins appeared in many films, including Bad Charleston Charlie, a 1973 comedy film written by and starring actor Ross Hagen and directed by Ivan Nagy.[1][2] The film, rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America, was distributed by International Cinema Corporation.[3] The film is loosely based on the life and death of 1920s gangster Charles Birger. Poorly received by both critics and audiences, the film has yet to be released on DVD or Blu-ray Disc.
Batman episodes #33 and #34[]
Dal Jenkins played Shark in the episode Fine Finny Fiends (1) the thirty-third episode of the first season of Batman.
"In Batman, the most interesting of the henchman was Shark played by Dal Jenkins. A character actor who dropped out of sight in the 1980's. Not much is really known about him. However, I stumbled upon some interesting trivia about him. I was attending a big sci-fi convention in Columbus Georgia many years ago. I met a fellow there who was a local actor..."
"They had filmed a horror film called the Kiss of the Tarantula in Columbus, Georgia and he played the minister. We started talking about the film, which played in New York constantly. When he learned I wrote the Batbook, he told me about a local Columbus boy named Dal Jenkins. I said I knew he played Shark in this episode. He told me the next time I watched the episode to check out Jenkins' eyes. I said I noticed his odd looking eyes. they made him look like a shark. I figured they gave Lundin a bald cap to make him look like an octopus, they gave Jenkins eye makeup. He told me that Jenkins was born that way. He had eyelids that only closed half way. Truth is stranger than fiction..." -Joel Eisner
Starring: Special Guest Villian: Burgess Meredith (Template:Ch) Guest Starring: Victor Lundin (Octopus), Bill Williams (Multimillionaire), Dal Jenkins (Shark), Howard Wendell (Millionaire), Julie Gregg (Finella)
External links[]
- Dal Jenkins as Razoff in Mission: Impossible
- Jenkins on Batman
- Bad Charleston Charlie at the Internet Movie Database
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- "F2-05-045 - Bad Charleston Charlie cast". PulpsAndComics.com. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110715131746/http://www.pulpsandcomics.com/dtaweb2/F2-05-045.jpg. Retrieved December 1, 2010.